 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...the following passage as a fair sample of the whole poem : — Grant that the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears,... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1859 - 78 pages
...fondly loved the good man, the picture drawn by Dr. Johnson ! — " But grant the virtues of a temperate prime, Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...older than Saturn. LE SAOB Gil Bias, Vol. I. Book HI. Chap. 11. An age that melts with nuperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose...Whose Night congratulating conscience cheers ; The general favourite as the general friend : Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ? DR. JOHNSON.... | |
 | 1918 - 430 pages
...declining life for the vicious, he turns to the brighter picture. But grant the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime, An age that melts with unperceived decay And glides in modest innocence away, — * * * *. The general favorite, as the... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pages
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp 'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears,... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 pages
...which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...harp, to deaden its vibrations. The Gulden L,Cend. LONGFELLOW. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away. I'amtye/ Hum,, DR. S. JOHNSON. DEATH.... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 pages
...temp'rate pour, prime The fruit autumnal, and the vernal Bless with an age exempt from scorn or flow'r, ival. Her beams bemock'd the sultry main, Like April...burnt alway A still and awful red. ?'Lthe, L Beyond th f av'rite as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who could wish its end? Yet ev'n on this her... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...temp'rate pour, prime The fruit autumnal, and the vernal Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime: 213 An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides...night congratulating Conscience cheers ; The gen'ral f av'rite as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who could wish its end? Yet ev'n on this her... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rale re sight, To see how together these yeomen went, With blades both browne with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears,... | |
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His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. 
